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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by CobaltFire on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:31AM (#38151442)
This is called the Julian (or Ordinal; I don't think there is a difference) calendar and is in wide use in (at least) parts of the US military for tracking things.

Actually, looking it up now it looks like the usage of the name "Julian" is due to the way the old tracking systems were programmed and used "JDATE" or similar. Nowadays it's just burned in habit that it's called the Julian Date.

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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by ianburrell on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:12PM (#38156726)
There is Julian Day that is used in astronomy. It counts days since start of Julian period.

My guess is that the idea of counting days attached the "Julian" name to day number in a year.

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